From: the_dojang-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com To: the_dojang-digest@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Subject: The_Dojang-Digest V9 #11 Reply-To: the_dojang@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Errors-To: the_dojang-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Precedence: The_Dojang-Digest Thur, 10 Jan 2002 Vol 09 : Num 011 In this issue: the_dojang: Missiissippi Seminar Picture the_dojang: I got the forms! the_dojang: life in Korea the_dojang: Re: High-Kicking competition the_dojang: Sport Taekwondo Calendar the_dojang: . ========================================================================= The_Dojang, serving the Internet since June 1994. 800 members strong! Copyright 1994-2002: Ray Terry and Martial Arts Resource The premier internet discussion forum devoted to the Korean Martial Arts. Replying to this message will NOT unsubscribe you. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe the_dojang-digest" (no quotes) in the body (top line, left justified) of a "plain text" e-mail addressed to majordomo@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com. To send e-mail to this list use the_dojang@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com See the Korean Martial Arts (KMA) FAQ and the online search engine for back issues of The_Dojang at http://MartialArtsResource.com Pil Seung! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "rich hodder" Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:53:45 +0000 Subject: the_dojang: Missiissippi Seminar Picture Jere, Are you sure you want the people of the world to look at our ugly mugs? You really are a Hapkido guy, to be able to inflict so much pain in such a short time :-) Rich _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ------------------------------ From: Loucat101@aol.com Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:45:07 EST Subject: the_dojang: I got the forms! I got a very kind email from Master Kincade explaining that Dojunim derived the shape of the form from the Chinese symbol for Sun Bi (intelligent warrior) Thanks to everyone who replied! Han, louise ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:54:30 PST Subject: the_dojang: life in Korea Perhaps of interest. Work laws in Korea... Forwarded message: [snip] 4. The minimum statutory standards for holidays/leave specified in the LSA (which hence must be reflected in Rules of Employment) are as follows: A. Weekly Holiday Time. LSA Article 54; PED Article 25: each employee is entitled to more than one paid day off per week. Although (like many things in Korea) less than transparent, what this means is that a worker is entitled to a day and a half off each week. Ostensibly, perfect attendance is required in exchange for the benefit, but in practice this is ignored. The "paid" part is particularly misleading, since in effect the pay that is given for the 5 and a half days of work includes that to which the worker is entitled for the time off. The standard work week is 44 hours 8 M/F and 4/Sat. The 44 hour week is scheduled to be reduced to 40 this year. B. Monthly Leave. LSA Art. 57; PED Art. 27: each employee is entitled to one paid day off per month of perfect attendance. Again the perfection requirement is rarely enforced in practice. C. Annual Leave. LSA Art. 59 grants each employee ten days of paid leave to employees with perfect attendance records for the year and 8 days to those with 90% attendance regards. In practice the distinction is not observed. After the first two years of employment, moreover, an employee is entitled to an additional day's leave for each year of continuous employment, provided that if the total number of annual leave days to which an employee is entitled is more than 20, the employer has the option of paying the employee additional daily wages in lieu of each such additional day of leave. Unlike the weekly holiday time, annual paid leave really is paid. D. Menstruation Leave. LSA Art. 71 grants women employees one paid day of menstruation leave per month. E. Maternity Leave. LSA Art 72(1) entitles women to 60 days of paid maternity leave, more than 30 days of which may be taken after delivery. This has been proposed to be increased to ninety days and to be extended to fathers, and I believe (but haven't been able to confirm yet) that the enlargement to 90 days has been enacted with effect from some time this year. f. Nursing Time. LSA Art.73 entitles mothers of children under 12 months to more than 30 minutes nursing time twice a day. g. Childcare Leave. Article 11 of the Equal Employment Act additionally entitles both and women to one year's leave for childcare during the first year of their child's life without penalty or other discriminatory effect vis-a-vis their job status with the employer. The time off is not deducted from their accrued employment tenure for, e.g., the purpose of determining leave or severance pay entitlements. 5. Congratulatory and Compassionate Leave. Although not prescribed by law, it was customary and still is common for employers to provide employees with time off (and/or -- and sometimes, increasingly just "or" -- monetary gratuities) in case of marriage, birth of a child (in the case of fathers), and death of a parent, grandparent, spouse or child. Sometimes these forms of leave are conventionally referred to as special leave, but that is just a term of art/convenience not law as such. The periods specified are arbitrary, but the periods you specify are not unusual. I've seen similar and lesser periods. Based on my (limited) actual experience over the past rising 8 years here, the trend is towards lesser periods, particularly with respect to funeral leaves. K.A. Davy J.D. The Harvard Law School Senior Adviser, Hwang Mok Park & Jin, Seoul ------------------------------ From: "Arthur Lee" Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 18:23:35 -0500 Subject: the_dojang: Re: High-Kicking competition It's been a bit since this post went up... I saw this on Guiness World Record Primetime (or whatever the show was called)... was this the "media" event it was played on?? anyone know? cause watching this guy from alaska best michael blanks, then go for another 2 inches was great... Arthur ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:50:04 PST Subject: the_dojang: Sport Taekwondo Calendar The_Dojang's calendar of Sport Taekwondo Events January 10, 2002 http://MartialArtsResource.com Dates and locations subject to change. 2002 Ohio Seniors Jan 16 Cleveland, Ohio Golden Gate Open Jan 26 San Rafael, California AAU Fresno Jan 26 Fresno, California Texas Open Jan 26 Galveston, Texas American Eagle Classic Jan 26 Denver, Colorado Two Rivers Invitational Jan 26 Des Moines, Iowa 17th Annual West Texas Inv Feb 2 Snyder, Texas Massachusetts AAU Champs Feb 2 Westfield, Massachusetts Spainish Champs Feb 2-3 Vitoria, Spain Calif Senior & Golden Seniors Feb 9 Carson, California International Flora Pokal Feb 9-10 Elmshom, Germany 7th Cheon Kwon Open Feb 17 Kerkrade, Netherlands BTCB Scottish Open Feb 17 Glasgow, Scotland US Open TKD Champs Feb 20-24 Orlando, Florida 14th Fajr Intl Feb 21-23 Tehran, Iran KATU Caribbean Open Feb 22-25 Stantiago, Domianican Rep Spainish Junior Champs Feb 23-24 Castellon, Spain Shoalhave Champs Feb 24 Bomaderry, Australia French ITF Open March 2-3 Thonon-les-Bains, France UC Berkeley Open March 9 Berkeley, California Dutch Open March 9-10 Eindhoven, Netherlands 6th International Luxemburg March 12 Steinfort, Luxemburg Eastern Canada ITF Champs March 16 Shawinigan, Quebec Western Canada ITF Champs March 16 Edmonton, Alberta Indy Cup March 16 Indianapolis, Indiana ITF Black Eagle International March 16-17 Tampere, Finland FMT 4th Annual March 23 Ft. Worth, Texas Maine Champs March 23 Portland, Maine Hardy's Challenge March 23 Exeter, New Hampshire 20th Antony Int Open March 23-24 Antony, France Maryland AAU Champs March 30 Waldorf, Maryland Blue Mountains Champs March 31 Lithgow, Australia 38th All-American TKD Champs late March New York, New York 7th South American Games April 4-14 Cordoba, Argentina Oklahoma State Qualifier April 6 Inola, Oklahoma Virginia AAU Champs April 6 ?, Virginia Viking ITF Cup April 6-7 Skovde, Sweden Belgian Open April 6-7 Lommel, Belgium Leumeah Patterns Competition April 7 Leumeah, Australia Calif Junior Champs (North) April 12-13 San Jose, California German Open April 13-14 Berlin, Germany NCTA Team Trials April 14 Kansas City, Kansas All Army Champs April 20 Annville, Pennsylvania Ozark AAU Champs April 20 ? 3rd Masters Cup April 20-21 Geleen, Netherlands 15th Asian Champs April 22-29 Amman, Jordan Land of Enchantment Champs April 27 Albuquerque, New Mexico KATU Open April 27-28 Manchester, Connecticut EuroCup for teams May Spain 14th European Senior TKD Champs May 2-5 Ankara, Turkey European AETF ITF Champs May 2-5 Trebon, Czech Republic Calif Junior Champs (South) May 3-4 Anaheim, California All Army International May 4 Annville, Pennsylvania Crow Invitational May 4 Sutherland, Australia AAU Region #1 Champs May 5 Niskayuna, New York AAU Calif State Champs May 11 San Francisco, California Alsace Open May 11-12 Strasbourg, Franc3 Canadian ITF Champs May 18 Edmonton, Alberta AAU Region #2 Champs May 18 ? USTU US National TKD Champs May 22-26 Detroit, Michigan Italian ITF Open June 1-2 Rimini, Italy Norway ITF Open June 1-2 Tromsoe, Norway European Champs June 8 Madrid, Spain Master Choi's ITF Invitational June 8-9 Oakville, Ontario 7th World Univ TKD Champs June 12-15 Berkeley, California USTU Junior Olympic TKD June 30-July 6 Minneapolis, Minnesota National AAU TKD Champs July 3-6 Greensboro, North Carolina British Open July 13-14 Isleworth, England World Cup July 23-26 Tokyo, Japan Greater Western Champs July 28 Penrith, Australia Mexican Open Aug TBD AAU Juniors Aug 7-10 Knoxville, Tennessee 2nd Canadian Open Aug 16-18 Brampton, Ontario, Canada Southern Highlands Champs Sept 14 Moss Vale, Australia The ITF Artic Cup Sept 28-29 Tromsoe, Norway 14th Asian Games Oct 10-13 Pusan, Korea 2nd International Champs Oct 17-20 New Delhi, India 22nd Annual Ft. Worth Int Oct 19-20 Ft. Worth, Texas Lee's Invitational Oct 26 Canberra, Australia 19th Central American & Caribbean Nov San Salvador, El Salvador 13th Pan American TKD Champ Nov Ecuador 2003 11th Pan Arab Games Algeria 8th All Africa Games Abuja, Nigeria 2nd Pan Am Junior March Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 14th European Junior TKD Champs May Athens, Greece 14th Pan American Games Santo Domingo, Dominican Rep 22nd World University Games Aug-Sept Taegu, Korea 3rd World Military Games Aug-Sept Madrid, Spain 16th World TKD Champs Sept 24-28 Garmisch, Germany 22nd Southeast Asian Games Oct HoChiMinh City, Vietnam Olypimc Games TKD Test Event Nov-Dec Athens, Greece 7th African Champs Accra, Ghana 2004 European Senior TKD Champs May 4-9 Lillehammer, Norway 8th Workd University Champs June 1-3 Patra, Greece 2004 Olympic Games Aug 26-29 Athens, Greece Ray Terry The_Dojang-Digest California Taekwondo, Hapkido and Eskrima http://MartialArtsResource.com ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:57:00 PST Subject: the_dojang: . ------------------------------ End of The_Dojang-Digest V9 #11 ******************************* It's a great day for Taekwondo! 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